Arturo Desimone

About Arturo Desimone

Arturo Desimone, Arubian-Argentinian writer and visual artist, was born in 1984 on the island Aruba which he inhabited until the age of 22, when he emigrated to the Netherlands. He relocated to Argentina while working on a long fiction project about childhoods, diasporas, islands and religion. Desimone’s articles, poetry and fiction pieces have previously appeared in the Drunken Boat Poetry Review, CounterPunch, Círculo de Poesía (Spanish), Island Magazine, Acentos Review, New Orleans Review and in the Latin American views section of OpenDemocracy. He writes a blog about Latin American poetry for Anomaly.